Posted on 06/23/2015 10:21:36 PM PDT by nickcarraway
A new report released Tuesday shows that African-Americans in San Francisco run a greater risk of being arrested than Caucasians.
The Reentry Council of the City and County of San Francisco, which according to its website coordinates efforts to support adults exiting from local prison facilities, commissioned the report last November. It was prepared by the nonprofit W. Haywood Burns Institute.
The report finds that, in comparison to whites, blacks are 7.1 times more likely to be arrested, 11 times more likely to be booked into County Jail, and 10.3 times more likely to be convicted of a crime in San Francisco.
The disparity gap between whites and blacks arrested between 1994 and 2013 has decreased by 23 percent in California. However, that number is up 53 percent in San Francisco.
NBC Bay Area's Stephanie Chuang just talked to the public defender-- who's pointing to the report and demanding something change. (Published Tuesday, Jun 23, 2015) Police Chief Greg Suhr said that African-Americans make up 6 percent of the city’s population, but 50 percent of its homicide victims. They also represent 40 percent of those arrested and 44 percent of those booked into County Jail, according to the report.
But Suhr also noted that 40 percent of property-crime victims describe an African-American suspect, about the same percentage that is arrested.
San Francisco Public Defender Jeff Adachi, who co-chairs the Reentry Council, deemed the report’s findings “damning” and “outrageous” -- especially in a city that prides itself on being progressive.
“It shows that African-Americans are more likely to be kept in custody, to be subject to higher bails, more likely to be convicted,” Adachi said.
The report also indicates that fewer blacks are able to stay out of jail prior to trial although they are more likely than their white counterparts to meet the necessary criteria for pretrial release.
San Francisco District Attorney George Gascón believes the report is “very concerning.”
“There is a tremendous social and economic disparity here in the city, even more so than other parts of the country,” he said. The report suggests maintaining accurate ethnic and racial data and monitoring trends and disparities every quarter.
Adachi is now working with San Francisco Supervisor Jane Kim to land funding for a Pre-Trial Detention Relief Unit, which will comprise two attorneys and two paralegals. The unit will be responsible for enabling people awaiting trial to access pretrial release programs, bail reduction and electronic monitoring.
Are you kidding. What are you fishing- for?
Means nothing without crime rates of said groups.
What about the Amish in San Francisco? (Sorry, could not help myself).
Are blacks in MOST PLACES.. much more prone to do stuff illegal than other races?...
Answer: YES... not always better at not getting caught..
AND thats just the ones they CAUGHT... it must be WORSE than the statistics.. say..
Have you ever been to SF?
The crime ratio of black:white is something like 8:1. Hispanic is like 2:1.
The even more damning thing is that the U.S population is about 70% white, 12-13% black, and about 15% other including hispanic/mixed.
The facts are staggering.
Could it possibly be because people whose ancestors came from Africa commit more violent crimes than people whose ancestors came from the Caucasus region.
Why do black people commit more crimes than other races?
I have an answer. But I’d like to know yours.
Yes.
IOW blacks commit far more crimes than anyone else. That’s always been true. When I lived there in the 80s blacks made up 10% of the population and committed 90% of the armed robberies.
So what’s their solution? Quotas for arrest? Oh, too many African-Americans picked up today, let’s let the rest of the criminals go? Or maybe just pick up whites at random and charge them with something?
Well, there is a very small population of African-Americans in SF. And a lot of San Franciscans like to think of themselves as “liberal,” but in reality, they are anything but.
The first ethnic joke I recall:
Why do the Blacks live in Oakland and
the Italians live in San Francisco?
ans: Oakland had first choice.
Just San Francisco? Might it be for the fact that they commit substantially more crimes than other demographics. They’re going to have to do better than that...
Also, lead paint. The increase in violent crime starting in the 6 is scientifically correlated with lead paint.
Always?
All those racist Republicans running San Francisco must be the cause of this! /s
Ah, the false media narrative that equality means Whites and Blacks should be arrested/convicted at equal rates. Sorry, kids, but when you leftists willfully destroyed the Black family in order to make them permanent slaves on the Democrat plantation, Black crime skyrocketed and has remained high 5 decades on, well disproportionate to the non-Black population. Restore the Black family, and especially Black fathers to the mix, and crime will decline amongst them.
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